Jackie Seaton (1945-2013) Canadian, Signed Salt-Glazed Art Pottery Vase. Curving lines form over a dozen blue angled panels along the outside with a rounded white speckled top lip, with small intentional drips all over the upper enamel. At the top of one panel is a fish in an oval, his potter's mark. Next to the mark is a paper label with information and prior pricing. Signed on bottom and dated 1997. 

Condition Commensurate with age. 

Size: 7 x 7 x 8 1/2 in. 

Jackie Bryan Seaton was born on March 8th, 1945 in Toronto, Canada. He first discovered ceramics at a summer arts and drama program at the Interlochen Center for Arts in Michigan when he was thirteen. In Hebrew School he met Joni Seligman and married her shortly after their high school graduation. After several years of traveling together exploring ceramics and pottery studios throughout North America they settled in Perth, Ontario, where Jackie built his own salt-glaze kiln and home studio. Early on Joni suggested that he use a fish as his potter’s mark, signifying both his astrological symbol (Pisces) and his desire to always keep moving, growing, and learning. For the next fifty years he worked every day, sometimes making a dozen or more pots in a single session, and became a local legend for his exuberant personality, activism, and fundraising efforts. On dares from his wife he taught himself both how to play cello and grow his own coffee beans (a stunning achievement for the Canada climate), and in the early 2000s he founded Empty Bowls Perth, an organization raising money for local food security programs by encouraging potters and students to make bowls to be filled with soup by local restaurants. Sadly, in the mid-2000s he was diagnosed with a rare form of blood cancer, multiple myeloma, and entered aggressive treatment that kept him from venturing outside much. Nevertheless, he continued to throw pots even up to the day he died on October 17th, 2013, and Empty Bowls continues to raise money in his honor. 

Commensurate with age.